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Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL® and Apache All in One, Fifth Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL® and Apache All in One, Fifth Edition

by Julie Meloni
May 2012
Beginner
672 pages
18h 24m
English
Sams
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Chapter 12. Working with Cookies and User Sessions

In this chapter, you learn the following:

• How to store and retrieve cookie information

• What session variables are and how they work

• How to start or resume a session

• How to store variables in a session

• How to destroy a session

• How to unset session variables

PHP contains numerous functions for managing and keeping track of user information, including both simple cookies and all-encompassing user sessions. Sessions use techniques built in to the PHP language, making the act of saving state as easy as referencing a superglobal variable.

Introducing Cookies

You can use cookies within your PHP scripts to store small bits of information about a user. A cookie is a small amount of data ...

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